“ we cannot resist the impulse, stronger than hunger, to sink our teeth in a cake, or forgo the astonishment, the alarm, the sorrow or the gaiety which we can unleash in a human soul by saying something unexpected. ”
Marcel Proust, The Prisoner (1923). copy citation
Author | Marcel Proust |
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Source | The Prisoner |
Topic | hunger sorrow |
Date | 1923 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Carol Clark |
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